From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 13 03:13:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA08963 for security-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 03:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@[129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA08958 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 03:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA04973; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:40:03 +0200 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id MAA15358; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:14:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id MAA20619; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:12:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970813121239.25438@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:12:39 +0200 From: Philippe Regnauld To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procfs References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: Main Body X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan A. Zdziarski on Tue, Aug 12, 1997 at 01:58:01PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan A. Zdziarski writes: > > With the recent security issues behind the procfs, and why it's even there > has anybody considered a proc daemon that maintained a table of process > information, queryable by commands from memory, rather than a pseudo-disk > based sortuh thing? As someone else said, it's a UNIX thing. Just like /dev/*, and hopefully one day portal_fs. Also, having a daemon like thing serving requests gives me a creepy feeling of Microsoftitis (then again, that's also a UNIX thing :-) -- -- Phil -[ Philippe Regnauld / Systems Administrator / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk ]- -[ Location.: +55.4N +11.3E PGP Key: finger regnauld@hotel.prosa.dk ]-